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The president candidate of the peoples Democratic party PDP in last general election Atiku Abubakar, has prayed  the presidential Election petition Tribunal to summon enough courage to do substantial justice to his petition   seeking the nullification of Bola Tinubu as winner of the feburary 25 election . Atiku in his finaladdress submitted that ciontrary to threat of Tinubu is sacked by the tribunal as Nigeria president on the account of massive electoral fraud that brought him to the office.Atiku ask Tribunal to invoke the courage displayed in the past supreme judgement to settle his petition against Tinubu by disregarding the threat of monumental chaos issued by Tinubu to shield himself from justice.

Hearing in the petition of thye presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar against the election of president Bola Tinubu, was stalled yesterday at the presidential election tribunal over alleged refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commision (INEC) to make some critical electoral materials available to him.

The court however adjourned further hearing in the petition till tomorrow, pending the time thr electoral body is expected to have responded to the request of Atiku and the People's Democratic Party PDP for release of documents.  

Following a summons that was issued on him, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Prof. Yakubu sent a senior official of the Commission, Mrs Moronkeji Tairu to testify in the petition filed by the presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party(PDP), Atiku Abubakar against President Bola Tinubu. As part of his evidence, the INEC boss produced before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal(PEPT)sitting in Abuja, a document that contained Tinubu's age. On its part, INEC through its lead counsel, Abubakar Mahmood(SAN) said though it was not opposed to the admissibility of the documents which it described as irrelevant to the case before the court, it however contended that the petitioners did not pay the neccesary fees. 

The independent national electoral commision (INEC) president Bola Tinubu and the all progressive congress (APC) yesterday jointly opposed the five ad hoc staff of the INEC subpoenaed by the presidential candidate of the PDP from testifying before the presidential electoral petition court.